Medical Induction Advice

[moondiapers]

I have to be on a medication that I can NOT be on for birth....and I have to travel over 2 1/2 hours to see a high risk practice. It seems our best choice, unless I want to be life flighted, is a planned induction after stopping my meds. At 39 weeks I have an appt to be checked to see if I'm ready to be induced. I'd really like to be ready so that I dont' have to travel back and forth almost 200 miles in bad weather while super pregnant, and risk going into labor on my own and being unable to be life flighted because of weather....

So...right now i'm taking EPO and drinking my nasty RRL tea (can't seem to mask the flavor no matter what I do)..... Anyone else in my position? What else can I do to help my cervix be ready (besides lots of sex) when I get to this appt so that an induction is more likely to go smoothly...I'm brining my breastpump and plan on using it to help keep things going once I'm in the hospital.

[Megan73]

I can't help with getting your cervix ready but I found this link from Henci Goer really useful for having the best possible induction if there's no other choice.
www.hencigoer.com/articles/elective_induction/
I strongly believe that taking her advice to refuse AROM until labor was well established saved me from a section - despite the fact that my cervix was REALLY unfavorable at the start of the induction.